Word: directed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...causes of, to devise remedies for, these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining the different classes of postal service is now in progress. Last week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase in first-class postage from 2? to 2½ or 3?. Argument for the increase: Citizens pay the deficit anyway, either in higher postage rates or U. S. taxes...
...unwilling to discharge your sworn obligations to the Federal Government or wish to make a confession of your inability to effectively direct the activities of your department, for which a large proportion of a $36,000.000 appropriation is allotted, the admission should be made primarily to your superiors in Washington, instead of 'passing the buck' to the State law-enforcing officers. Your plan would necessitate increasing the police personnel by 5,000 men, costing the taxpayers of the City of New York a minimum of $15,000,000 per annum...
News that last week pleased many Norwegians was annoying to two groups of U. S. manufacturers, the producers of vegetable and animal oils. With whale oil in direct competition and a lower tariff on it threatened, U. S. fine-oil men heard that sailing for the Antarctic on Norway's first seaplane-equipped whaling boats were Pilots Riisar-Larsen and Leutzowe Holm, seasoned polar flyers for the late Explorer Roald Amundsen. Experiment off Alaska has proven the feasibility of spotting whales from the air at long range, resulting in tremendous kills, big cargoes of whale oil, cheap prices for competition...
...Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Cos. were merged to form General Electric Co. Beginning research for them at Lynn, Steinmetz, proudly, silently, lived four weeks without salary until the payroll error responsible was detected, righted. Always fearful of shock, his work was with Alternating Current, whose danger the Direct Current interests then so ably played up in press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors...
...purchases. So all told Squibb Plan gets $80. Out of this it pays the retailer 6% ($30) on his money. Of the remaining profit ($50) half goes back to the parent company and the rest ($25) is prorated among the retailers in proportion to the amount of their direct purchases from Squibb...